>And I do not think signing a
waiver is
necessarily appropriate, because I believe you can

>not compel anyone to sign away
their right
to sue.You may think
someone
would take

>responsibility for their own bad
and unsafe
actions, but when it comes down to an incident

>that results in harm, and there is
money
involved, don't count on that being the case.

You
cannot sign
away someone else's right to sue, but waivers of various sorts
are common
in which, in return for a consideration such as continued employment, an
individual signs away a right to sue for a variety of causes. You
can't
sign away a right to such things as Worker's Compensation coverage, but
getting
a company to agree to a variation on policy such as use of lab coats in
return
for your not suing the company if your not wearing a lab coat damages
your $700
suit is quite another matter.

Such a
waiver will not protect the company if there is an injury as a result of
not
using proper protective equipment, but it at least puts the employee on
notice
that they are accepting some form of personal responsibility by that
refusal.

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